The glossary

8 of 304 words for “Cooldown”

1. Cooldown

   WoW

   How long before you can use an ability again. Also the ability itself when it is a big one: 'pop your cooldowns'.

   “Save cooldowns for the burn phase.”

   “Death Wish is a three-minute cooldown, use it every pull.”

   See also: GCD, Burst

2. Burst

   PvP

   A lot of damage in a short window, usually with cooldowns. The opposite of sustained damage.

   “Rogue burst with Cold Blood and Eviscerate.”

   “Enough burst to kill a clothie in a stun.”

   See also: Cooldown, Sustained

3. GCD

   WoW

   Global cooldown: the 1.5 seconds (1 second for some abilities) after using almost anything before you can use anything else. Off-GCD abilities ignore it.

   “Bloodrage is off the GCD, weave it in.”

   “You're wasting GCDs on Battle Shout mid-fight.”

   See also: Cooldown, Rotation

4. Priority list

   WoW

   A rotation written as 'use the first thing on this list that is available'. Handles procs and cooldowns better than a fixed sequence.

   “Priority list: keep Slice and Dice up, Eviscerate at 5 points, otherwise Sinister Strike.”

   See also: Rotation, Proc

5. Sustained

   WoW

   Damage you can keep doing all fight, cooldowns aside. What raid DPS is measured on.

   “Fury has better sustained than Arms, Arms has the burst.”

   See also: Burst, DPS

6. Trinket

   PvP

   The PvP trinket that breaks you out of crowd control on a two-minute cooldown. 'Trinketing' is using it.

   “He trinketed the sheep, re-sheep!”

   “Don't blow your trinket on a Hamstring.”

   See also: CC

7. Hearth

   WoW

   Also: Hearthstone, HS

   Using your Hearthstone to teleport to your inn. 'Hearth and log' ends a session.

   “Hearth's on cooldown, running to Ironforge.”

   See also: Summon

8. Taunt

   WoW

   An ability that forces an enemy to attack the tank for a few seconds and sets their threat to the top: Taunt, Growl, Hand of Reckoning. The tank's emergency brake.

   “Taunt it off the mage!”

   “Taunt is on cooldown, that's why the priest is dead.”

   See also: Aggro, Threat, Tank